British activists ‘terrified’ and trapped on board ship captured by Iceland

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video British activists are among 21 crew members who say they are trapped on board a ship that was captured by Iceland last week. The protest vessel Bandero was boarded by armed officers late on Thursday after it t

An animal-rights activist from Saskatchewan is among those detained off the coast of Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, on a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson.

Watson has a history with confronting whaling vessels, and was removed from Interpol’s most-wanted list in 2025. Iceland is one of the only countries still practicing commercial whaling